Pinkerton S Great Detective

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143126072

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Pinkerton's Great Detective by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland’s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers along on McParland’s most challenging cases: from young McParland’s infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idaho’s former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0670025461

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Pinkerton's Great Detective by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

The story of the legendary detective credited with the defeat of the Molly Maguires gang and Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch offers insight into his innovative "cloak-and-dagger" methods and his investigation into the Western Federation of Mines for the assassination of Idaho's former governor. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101622711

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Pinkerton's Great Detective by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland’s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers along on McParland’s most challenging cases: from young McParland’s infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idaho’s former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.

Author : S. Paul O'Hara
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421420578

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Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs by S. Paul O'Hara Pdf

The fascinating story of the most notorious detective agency in US history. Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capital’s tool to crush worker dissent. Yet the image of the Pinkerton detective also inspired romantic and sensationalist novels, reflected shifting ideals of Victorian manhood, and embodied a particular kind of rough frontier justice. Inventing the Pinkertons examines the evolution of the agency as a pivotal institution in the cultural history of American monopoly capitalism. Historian S. Paul O’Hara intertwines political, social, and cultural history to reveal how Scottish-born founder Allan Pinkerton insinuated his way to power and influence as a purveyor of valuable (and often wildly wrong) intelligence in the Union cause. During Reconstruction, Pinkerton turned his agents into icons of law and order in the Wild West. Finally, he transformed his firm into a for-rent private army in the war of industry against labor. Having begun life as peddlers of information and guardians of mail bags, the Pinkertons became armed mercenaries, protecting scabs and corporate property from angry strikers. O’Hara argues that American capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order. Yet the infamy of the Pinkerton agent also gave critics and working communities a villain against which to frame their resistance to the new industrial order. Ultimately, Inventing the Pinkertons is a gripping look at how the histories of American capitalism, industrial folklore, and the nation-state converged.

Author : David Ricardo Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550023060

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Call in Pinkerton's by David Ricardo Williams Pdf

Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services. Call in Pinkerton's is the history of the agency's work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces. During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Pinkerton's operatives hunted legendary train robber Bill Miner in the woods of British Columbia, infiltrated German spy rings during World War I, and helped future prime minister John A. Macdonald to fend off the Fenian raids. They tracked down the Reno Brothers in Windsor, Ontario, and investigated labour unrest in Hamilton. The agency's detectives countered crimes all over Canada, particularly in the West and British Columbia. Pinkerton's activities went as far north as the Yukon, where fears were growing of an imminent invasion by a force of Americans from Alaska. Call in Pinkerton's is the first book to chronicle the agency's work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces. This entertaining book provides accounts of actual Pinkerton's investigations while detailing the day-to-day activities of a private detective at work. Call in Pinkerton's is a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in crime and espionage.

Author : Martin Farr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135776596

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Reginald McKenna by Martin Farr Pdf

Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this major statesmen and financier partly through the natural advance of historical research, and partly by the discoveries of missing archival material. McKenna's role is now illuminated by his own reflections, and by the correspondence of friends and colleagues, including Asquith, Churchill, Keynes, Baldwin, Bonar Law, MacDonald, and Chamberlain. McKenna's presence at the hub of political life in the first half of the century is now clear: in the radical Liberal governments of 1905–16, where he acted as a lightning conductor for the party; during the war, where he served as the Prime Minister's deputy and the principal voice for restraint in the conduct of the war; and as chairman of the world's largest bank, where until his death in office aged eighty, he prompted progressive policies to deal with the issues of war debt, trade, mass unemployment, and the return to gold.

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781939547330

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Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective by Marissa Moss Pdf

A biography of Kate Warne, the first woman detective in the U.S after being hired by the Pinkerton Agency in 1856.

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047587303

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Thirty Years a Detective by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493030668

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The Pinks by Chris Enss Pdf

The true story of Kate Warne and the other women who served as Pinkertons, fulfilling the adage, “Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History.” Most students of the Old West and American law enforcement history know the story of the notorious and ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency and the legends behind their role in establishing the Secret Service and tangling with Old West Outlaws. But the true story of Kate Warne, an operative of the Pinkerton Agency and the first woman detective in America—and the stories of the other women who served their country as part of the storied crew of crime fighters—are not well known. For the first time, the stories of these intrepid women are collected here and richly illustrated throughout with numerous historical photographs. From Kate Warne’s probable affair with Allan Pinkerton, and her part in saving the life of Abraham Lincoln in 1861 to the lives and careers of the other women who broke out of the Cult of True Womanhood in pursuit of justice, these true stories add another dimension to our understanding of American history.

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1157 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547683773

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The Greatest Cases of Pinkerton Detective Agency by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

Good Press presents to you a unique collection of the greatest cases of Pinkerton Detective Agency, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: The Expressman and the Detective The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller The Spiritualists and the Detectives Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives Poisoner and the Detectives Bucholz and the Detectives The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1561 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547765059

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The Greatest Detective Books of Allan Pinkerton by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

Musaicum Press presents to you a collection of true crime and detective stories written by the Allan Pinkerton. Contents: The Expressman and the Detective The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller The Spiritualists and the Detectives Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives Poisoner and the Detectives Bucholz and the Detectives The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives The Spy of the Rebellion

Author : James David Horan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0709116802

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The Pinkertons by James David Horan Pdf

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Belford Brothers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : PRNC:32101031806142

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The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton Pdf

Author : Cleveland Moffett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547332442

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True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons by Cleveland Moffett Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons" by Cleveland Moffett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Richard W. Rowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632643282

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The Pinkertons by Richard W. Rowan Pdf